Towards Reforming the Legal Framework for Secured Transactions in Nigeria PDF Download

Author: Chima Williams Iheme
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331941836X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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This book offers a valuable guide to one of the most challenging areas of commercial law, now frequently referred to as secured transactions, with a focus on Nigerian, Canadian and United States perspectives. A debtor’s ability to provide collateral influences not only the cost of the money borrowed, but also in many cases, whether secured lenders are willing to offer credit at all. The book proposes that increasing access to, and indeed, lowering the cost of credit could tremendously boost economic development, while at the same time arguing that this would best be achieved if the legal framework for secured transactions in Nigeria, and of course, any other country with similar experiences, were designed to allow the use of personal property and fixtures to secure credit. Similarly, the creation, priority, perfection, and enforcement of security interests in personal property should be simplified and supported by a framework that ensures that neither the interests of secured lenders nor debtors are hampered, so as to guarantee the continuous availability of affordable credit as well as debtors’ willingness to borrow and do business. The book further argues that in addition to the obvious preference for real property over personal property by secured lenders due to the unreformed secured-transactions legal framework in Nigeria, its compartmentalized nature has also resulted in unpredictability in commerce and the concomitant effects of poor access to credit. Through the comparative research conducted in this book utilizing the UCC Article 9 and Ontario PPSA as benchmarks, the author provides reformers with a repository of tested secured-transactions law solutions, which law reformers in the Commonwealth countries in Africa and beyond, as well as the business community will find valuable in dealing with issues that stem from secured transactions.

Author: Williams Iheme
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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It is the view of many scholars that robust economic development of a country is heavily dependent on the sufficient availability of credit in the economy. Doing business leads to jobs-creation and poverty reduction - but that can only happen if sufficient credit is made available to both business and non-business entities. However, lenders of credit are in business and should obtain some form of security, of which proprietary (in rem) security plays a key role. An internet registry which displays all security interests and encumbrances in personal property, thereby providing notice to the public regarding a particular secured transaction is highly recommended for Nigeria. In addition, all personal property should be admissible as collateral, coupled with creditors' self-help right to repossess and sell them in the event of default. The Nigerian legal framework on secured transactions is compartmentalized and insufficient to tackle today's commercial realities, but UCC Article 9 which has so far escaped attention of lawmakers in Nigeria may offer a number of recipes for Nigeria's secured transactions law reform.

Author: Gregory Esangbedo
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152755287X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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This book examines an enactment that reforms Nigeria’s personal property security law by adopting the unitary system of secured transactions in replacement of the common law system. With the unitary system widely acclaimed for enhancing access to credit for small business entities, the book highlights the drawbacks of the enactment in the attainment of this objective. Being the foremost Nigerian book on the unitary system, it is a significant text for all stakeholders in the credit system within and outside Nigeria, including law academics, practitioners, students and financial regulators. It will interest those in countries that are intent on undergoing similar reform as it provides guidance on the unique features of the unitary system in contrast with those of the common law. In the spirit of reform, the book compares the Nigerian enactment to other similar enactments to highlight potential lessons in areas in which the Nigerian enactment appears to have lost traction.This book examines an enactment that reforms Nigeria’s personal property security law by adopting the unitary system of secured transactions in replacement of the common law system. With the unitary system widely acclaimed for enhancing access to credit for small business entities, the book highlights the drawbacks of the enactment in the attainment of this objective. Being the foremost Nigerian book on the unitary system, it is a significant text for all stakeholders in the credit system within and outside Nigeria, including law academics, practitioners, students and financial regulators. It will interest those in countries that are intent on undergoing similar reform as it provides guidance on the unique features of the unitary system in contrast with those of the common law. In the spirit of reform, the book compares the Nigerian enactment to other similar enactments to highlight potential lessons in areas in which the Nigerian enactment appears to have lost traction.

Author: Iyare Otabor-Olubor
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Languages : en
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The company charge represents a key component of the secured transactions law system in Nigeria. Notwithstanding, its usefulness has now been called into question due to the recent enactment of the Central Bank of Nigeria Registration of Security Interests in Movable Property by Banks and Other Financial Institutions (Regulation No 1, 2015) which provides a more attractive platform in the facilitation of credit for individuals and businesses to use movable assets as security. The company charge is not recognised as a security interest under this Regulation, and neither do the provisions of this Regulation apply to the company charge. This article provides a methodical analysis of the nature of security under both regimes, while specifically looking at the reasons why there should be a degree of harmonisation regarding the publicity of their existence. The approach taken is burdened by the need to embrace a uniform publicity set of rules in lieu of a transparent priority system as against a straightjacket integration of dissimilar, albeit, embedded functional legal doctrines.

Author: Williams Iheme
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Languages : en
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In response to the inability of micro, small and medium scale enterprises (MSMEs) to access credit to finance their business operations, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria passed the Central Bank of Nigeria (Registration of Security Interests in Movable Property by Banks and Other Financial Institutions in Nigeria) Regulations, No 1, 2015. The purport of this regulation is, among other things, to ensure that MSMEs can use items of personal property to create security. This article critically examines the regulation in the light of the building blocks of article 9 of the US Uniform Commercial Code, which is not only a paradigmatic piece of legislation but appears to be the model on which the Nigerian regulation is based. This critical examination leads the authors to conclude that, although the regulation represents the first steps to reform, much more remains to be done to ensure effectiveness.

Author: Emmanuel O. Nwabuzor
Publisher: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
ISBN:
Category : Commercial law
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Marek Dubovec
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781509913107
Category : Law reform
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Introduction -- A Modern Secured Transactions Law -- COMMON LAW -- Ghana -- Kenya -- Liberia -- Malawi -- Nigeria -- Zambia -- Sierra Leone -- CIVIL LAW -- OHADA Uniform Act on Securities -- Burundi -- Ethiopia -- Tunisia -- MIXED JURISDICTIONS -- Rwanda -- South Africa -- Zimbabwe -- A Modern International Approach to Equipment Financing in Africa: -- Th e Cape Town Convention and its Protocols -- Th e Infrastructure Underpinning a Modern Secured Transactions Law -- Conclusion.

Author: Louise Gullifer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509903127
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Secured transactions law has been subjected to a close scrutiny over the last two decades. One of the main reasons for this is the importance of availability of credit and the consequent need to reform collateral laws in order to improve access to finance. The ability to give security effectively influences not only the cost of credit but also, in some cases, whether credit will be available at all. This requires rules that are transparent and readily accessible to non-lawyers as well as rules that recognise the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises. This book critically engages with the challenges posed by inefficient secured credit laws. It offers a comparative analysis of the reasons and the needs for a secured transactions law reform, as well as discussion of the steps taken in many common law, civil law and mixed law jurisdictions. The book, written under the auspices of the Secured Transactions Law Reform Project, informs the debate about reform and advances novel arguments written by world renowned experts that will build upon the existing literature, and as such will be of interest to academics, legal practitioners and the judiciary involved in secured transactions law around the world. The text considers reform initiatives that have taken place up to the end of April 2016. It has not been possible to incorporate events since then into the discussion. However, notable developments include the banks decree passed by the Italian Government on 29th June 2016, and the adoption of the Model Law on Secured Transactions by UNCITRAL on 1st July 2016.

Author: Sanford Mba
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 10

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In 2015, Nigeria joined the league of countries that have reformed their secured transactions regime, with the enactment of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Regulation No. 1, 2015. This reform introduces a new wave of changes to the way by which personal property will be used in the future for the purpose of securing credit in Nigeria. Amongst other things, the Regulation provides a reconceptualization of personal property securities as conceptualized under English law to a functional system, such as that of UCC Article 9. More specifically, it introduces in some measure, self-help repossession and disposition as a means by which secured lenders may realize their security interests in the event that the debtor defaults in the repayment of the credit facility extended to the debtor.In this paper, I shall examine, from the viewpoint of behavioral law and economics (BLE), arguments that supports the case for the use of self-help repossession as provided for in the Regulation.

Author: Iheme Chima Williams
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783659748523
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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The book is a package of new ideas - proposing the reform of Nigeria's secured transactions law. The topics discussed in the book will also by extension serve as a wake-up call for other emerging economies whose secured transactions law currently have similarities with Nigeria's to think of reform and the accompanying benefits. The book borrows useful ideas from the "giants" - countries that have figured it out to a large extent, and modifies these ideas to primarily suit Nigeria's local conditions. It is incontrovertibly the case that easy access to credit has become an integral part of a country's economic success, and this book projects this truth from the US/Canada - Nigeria perspectives.